Doing Business in Russia

Would you like to know how to do business in Russia and enjoy your summer holidays in the cultural capital of Russia - the city of Saint-Petersburg? Join this summer school!

Within the program you will gain the knowledge about Russian business, culture, identity, national history, government, customs and traditions.

Duration: 2 weeks*

ECTS credits: 4*

Participation fee: 50 000 RUB

*There is also a longer program of 3 weeks with 6 ECTS credits available on request. Please email us to get the 3-week course syllabus and more details.

Deadline for registration: May 27, 2024

• Cultural program

  We offer our students excursions to the most famous palaces, monuments, museums of St. Petersburg, as well as other cultural activities.

• Entrance requirements
  • • Good command of English. All classes and extracurricular activities are carried out in English. Knowledge of the Russian language is not required.
  • • Applicants are expected to have at least 1 year of University level studies.

The detailed course description for ECTS credits transfer at your home university:

Doing Business in Russia_Descriptor SS24.pdf

Course description

• Entrepreneurship in Russia

  The main goal of this course is to acquaint students with the theory of entrepreneurship and provide them with practical skills in opening and doing business in Russia.

  The objectives of the course are to provide students with the following professional skills and competences:

  - the ability to participate in project teamwork, programs of implementation of new products/services;

  - the ability to evaluate the economic and social environment of the business, identify new market opportunities and create new business models applied to specific of Russia;

  - ability to analyze market and specific risks for decision making process, including the decisions on investment and financing;

  - skills of coordinating entrepreneurial activities in order to ensure consistency of the project by all participants.

• B2C and B2B Branding

  During this seminar students will gain knowledge on specifics of consumer behavior in the Russian Federation, learn features of brand design and communication in b2c and b2b markets, and become skilled to make decisions about brand localization for Russian consumers.

• Business marketing (with emphasis to Russian market)

  The main goal of this course is to acquaint students with the theory of entrepreneurship and provide them with practical skills in opening and doing business in Russia.

  This course is aimed at developing students’ competences in making a marketing strategy from a scratch based on the marketing-mix. Intensive training focused on building up their skills in conducting marketing research, interpreting the results and organizing the work of marketing department in fit with the results provided. Students get acquainted with the uniqueness of marketing in Russia.

  The course content provides students with the knowledge on the basics of marketing. The marketing mix concept is then studied in author-based model 6P including, besides classic concept (price, promotion, place and product), two additional “P”: positioning and picture. Each element of marketing-mix is studied with the help of presentations and handouts. The course trains students how to analyze the marketing environment and to act accordingly to it, building the marketing strategy for the product or even organizing the work of a marketing department. The uniqueness of doing marketing in Russia is provided during the course which is going to help students to develop the best solution for the final case connected with the Russian market.

• Doing e-business in Russia

  The goal of this course is to provide students information on e-commerce market entry strategies in Russia. Trainings will provide knowledge and skills in working with the main tools and channels for promoting a good or service in a digital environment with emphasis to Russian business-making peculiarities.

  During the course, students will learn how to build a business idea, define the product target audience, develop entry strategy to the digital market and strategies to e-Business promotion in Russia.

Professors and lecturers:

• Oksana Evseeva, Associate Professor, D.Sc;
• Arthur Kireev, Associate Professor, Director of the Graduate School of Technology Entrepreneurship;
• Aleks Krasnov, Assistant Professor, PhD;
• Alexey Trykov, Assistant Professor, PhD;

Contacts:

Department of International Educational Programs

• summerschool@spbstu.ru
• +7 (812) 534-25-31
• room 227, 28, Grazhdanskii prospect, 195220, St.Petersburg, Russia